Actually, 40% of worldwide sales of “World’s #1 Dad” mugs in 2015, 2016 and 1921 are Commander trying to get rid of surplus (with the consent of the people he got them from of course) after they overflowed two whole storage compartments ;-)

Perhaps he’s concerned that such achievements have graduated him from the Commander’s fatherliness? It would kinda suck to go from sorta-son to friend or acquaintance, even as nice as B-52 is to acquaintances.

Remember not-too-many-strips-ago, when Kratos was remarkably chill about getting shot in the arm with an arrow by his son? He’s come a long way since the senior prom. Do you think Commander felt a moment of fatherly pride?

Technically Red Robin is currently “dead”. Tim Drake traveled to 2030 because a version of Terry McGinnis (not the Earth-16 one from the cartoons) died while time traveling in Futures End. Terry McGinnis is now alive again because REASONS so Tim Drake will be traveling back to his own era soon.

It goes dog -> snake -> robot. Given that the snake is the only one you could get in previous games when it didn’t have the whole “cell” thing going on, and also given the whole “limbs” thing, I really wish the first two were swapped.

On the other hand, this does mean you can get ten of the doggos (each needs 10/100 cells) instead of only two (snake needs 50/100).

The grunts have the advantage here. If a Pokebattle breaks loose in the lunch room Mr.Fish won’t have mobility. Can’t help but feel the Commander would make them take it outside, but at the same time he’d probably be the referee to the fight.

Jared’s proficiency as a trainer stems from the fact that he is completely immune to Pokemon logic and instead uses common sense.
Commander has that exact same “superpower” which is how he got into his office that morning in the first place, so he wouldn’t exactly be suited to referee a match.

The grunts have the advantage because Commander can stop Jared from doing anything with a very stern look, and I don’t think Commander would approve of Jared being a knob to Commander’s guests.

we all know if they do pull out a pokemon Mr. Fish is liable to eat them, and if not, he can always LAZAH FEEEEEESH!

but I really did enjoy this one. I saw a comment on the last page about what sort of pokemon commander would have. I feel like he would have a houndoom. or… hmmm
OH OH HE WOULD HAVE AN ARCANINE. duh. so obvious. future space marine government official. he’s basically rule 63 officer jenny. on steroids. with symbiotic cancer cells. and can time travel and is badass as hell. basically aside from his government position, he is nothing like officer jenny period. but he would still totally have an arcanine. and maybe a houndoom. I could see it. middle of winter and commander is letting his kids get pulled behind an arcanine and houndoom on a sleigh. who needs a ponyta pulled carriage when you got the big dogs mushing in front of your sleigh?

I doubt it; half the appeal to Jared and Mr Fish early on was the way they just bulldoze through Pokemon society, and Mr Fish has been known to devour other trainers’ Pokemon alive. I’d be surprised if they’ve put in the effort to get the hang of nonlethal matches, though I suppose it would make sense to pick up some Pokemon etiquette after Jared became a Professor.

Most pokemon trainers are lazy hacks who stand back and let their ‘mon do all the heavy lifting. Jared was right there on the front line with Mr. Fish, dishing it out, not standing in the back and yelling crap like, “use bubble beam!” Yeah, thanks, the guy’s on fire, I kinda figured that.

I know everyone’s been saying that Commander is Jared’s surrogate father figure for forever, but seeing it actually in-comic made me fangirl a bit.

Also, I can’t help but think that, if more fathers in the Pokemon world actually stuck around their families instead of running off to train Pokemon, there would be a lot fewer Team Villain grunts running around.

Or maybe the game where you get to -be- the absentee father? A game where you play a veteran trainer who has to start from scratch because Team Villain stole all your pokemon, because your kid gave them the wifi password and they hacked your PC?

I dunno, I kind of assume by now that Jared is a pretty powerful trainer, all things considered. He used to beat pokemon using a Magikarp as a bat until he evolved, so his fighting skills were already well above the “pokemon trainer” level, even before meeting the Commander.

He smashed the animatronics from Freddy Fazbear’s, and considering that those easily jump and overpower applicants to the night shift… He might not be ready to go toe to toe with superhumans, but he’s quick and strong enough to be extremely effective.

You know, I agree with Commander. The Team Skull grunts are quite pathetic, enough to feel sorry for them. Enough to think that “Hey, maybe these punks could do some good for society if they were showed the right way”.

Huh, I forgot about that. However, that doesn’t mean that it can’t happen. He would still be able to have a battle unofficially. Or maybe there could be an ark about getting the license back. I don’t really see that happening but it could be cool.

Jared and Mr. Fish are the ones who made Pokémon battles sound like something he’d actually watch.

Of course, while enforcing the Leauge’s rules does reduce the fun somewhat, it also ensures everybody goes home to train another day, instead of winding up digging through the tall grass outside Pallet Town for a particularly buff Pidgey or Ratata with which to restart one’s trainer career.

But hey, he should be used to that kind of thing. I mean, training with live ammo is good for learnin’ to shoot, and training against your comrades in action scenarios is good for learnin’ to tactically operate like a tactical operator, but live-fire training against your comrades is a really bad idea.

I can’t even begin to tell you the number of times I’ve wondered “Why in the world is there a Team Skull grunt just standing here?” only to realize upon battling them that they’re just a regular punk as opposed to a gang-affiliated one.

I’m the only who is annoyed by the fact that we never see Guzma and Nanu at the same but somehow they manage to appear shortly after you talk with any of them except well before entering to the UB’s dimension.

I have this theory that Guzma is actually Nanu’s kid.. it’s kinda hard to tell Guzma’s age from his character design, but I figure he’s in his late 20s/early 30s and Nanu is probably in his mid- to late-50s, so yeah… around the right age, the same hair color (because, as we all know from the storyline, whenever characters show up with the same hair color, they clearly must be related…*cough*dysfunctional platinum blond family*cough*), and I feel like a lot of Nanu’s apathy could be explained by a strained relationship with his son and feelings that he failed as a parent.

Actually, Guzma’s dad is on Route 2. There’s a house there, with a bedroom full of second and third place trophies and a bag full of bent up golf clubs. Talking to the old man there, he says that he wanted to “set that boy straight, but I was the one that get beat instead.” There’s enough evidence between what Guzma says and what’s in the house to put two and two together.

So does he mean “I Sorta raised you” better than this. or is it “I Sorta raised you better than this”
I cant tell if the implication is that the commander did not really raise him but for when he did raise him, it was better than this. Or if its that while he was raising him up recently he raised him to be sorta better than this but not really or at least not by much.

I viewed Team Skull so much differently after I worked out Guzma probably used to be abused by his dad until he fought back and ran away from home, was always runner up in everything (loads of bronze trophies and one silver in his room, no gold) and got rejected from being a captain. No wonder he wanted to make his own family, accepting other runaway kids and giving them a home, and was drawn to someone who actually recognised his strength.